NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 51 



long, many flowered. Bracts linear oblong persistent 

 lower ones I inch long orange. Flowers about 12, orange 

 color, pedicels slender half an inch long. Sepals narrow- 

 ly lanceolate acuminate \ inch long, lower ones broader 

 at the base with a short broad mentum as long as the 

 ovary. Petals linear acuminate shorter and narrower 

 than the upper sepal. Lip narrower shorter, side lobes 

 rounded oblong obtuse, disc narrow with three strongly 

 elevated undulate keels, the centre one lowest till near the 

 base of the midlobe when it becomes thicker and taller, 

 midlobe longer than sidelobes fleshy ovate oblong obtuse, 

 entirely covered with sinuate keels and warty protuber- 

 ances. Column short. Clinandrum with wide thin 

 margins. Anthers large elliptic thin obtuse, divided 

 into two thinwalled cells with a ridge in the middle. 



Sarawak: Kuching (Haviland) and Moulton 

 (1909). 



A very distinct plant of the Bractescens series in its 

 completely orange colour and its curious lip. 

 Coelogyne ( £ Chelonostele) pliaiostele, n. sp. 



Pseu-dobulbs crowded, flattened curved narrowed up- 

 wards, elongate many ridged, yellow or greenish yellow. 2 

 inches long, j inch wide at the base. \ inch at the top, 

 hardly half an inch through. Leaves 2 lanceolate 8 

 inches long 1 inch wide gradually narrowed into the 

 petiole apex acute, slightly coriaceous dark green, when 

 young the edges keel, and 2 veins red, petiole yellow 

 terete -1 inches long. Leaves when young enclosed in 4 

 lanceolate flesh colored sheaths at the base. Scape from 

 between the leaves 12 inches long subterete. raceme 2 

 inches or more, joints flexuous. Bracts lanceolate 

 pinkish subacute half an inch long, flattened distichous. 

 Flower small pedicel about l inch slender. Sepals ovate 

 lanceolate obtuse J inch long white, with a pale green 

 medium vein outside and speckled with ocreous scales. 

 Petals narrow linear as long. Lip little longer than 

 sepals, pandurate. side lobes linear falcate short, midlobe 

 rotundate bilobed. base narrowed, all yellowish white. 



R. A. Soc, No. 53. 1909. 



